Honeysuckle Creek space tracking station was the prime radio telescope station assigned with receiving the initial television pictures from space during the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Apollo 11 mission. Australian audiences saw Neil Armstrong’s historic first step on the moon’s surface 0.3 seconds before the rest of the world.
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO); National Aeronautics and Space Administration, sts047-12-002
Top: Honeysuckle Creek space tracking station, c. 1969
">Top: Honeysuckle Creek space tracking station, c. 1969
Below: John Saxon (back) and Mike Dinn at the Honeysuckle Creek Operations Console during a pre-mission simulation for NASA’s Apollo 13, 1970
Below: John Saxon (back) and Mike Dinn at the Honeysuckle Creek Operations Console during a pre-mission simulation for NASA’s Apollo 13, 1970
Canberra, Australia